Phillip besef algaande dat mense hom met agtervolg. Tot sy buurman het ’n vendetta teen hom, en daar is ’n reuk in sy woonstel wat hom telkens oorweldig . . . ’n Teer, onsentimentele novelle op die geleidelike aftakeling van ’n man wat ly aan skisofrenie. Deur die bekroonde skrywer van Die ryk van die rawe. ...
She called herself Silent Anna because she couldn’t tell anyone what happened between her and her stepfather. Now, many years later, she breaks the silence to reveal the sexual abuse she suffered, its impact on her life and how she has finally managed to overcome it. It’s me, Anna is based on a true story. ...
Nobantu has everything a girl could dream of: a brilliant businessman for a husband, two adorable children, and two of the best friends a girl could ask for. And yet, on her 35th birthday, surrounded by glitz, glamour and fame, she realises something important. What has happened to her ambitions? Her career? ...
Halley is a smart girl growing up poor in Durban, close to the bustling docks. Trying to make ends meet is her mother, Nora, who pares herself to the bone to provide. Halley’s sister is bored of everything, but she’s not a regular girl anyway, she’s a princess. Halley finds a way to live that’s more than making do. She finds that a little love and imagination can take you pretty far, and that they certainly help to hold the curious bits and piec ...
"I am admitting defeat to my hectic schedule. I am giving in to something I thought I would never do. I’m going to hire a maid." And not just any maid … When Thandi decides she’s done with being a Supermom to her five-year-old son, a Superslut to her man and a Superwoman to her staff at the tourism board, she realises she needs to concede to the great South African bourgeois accessory: a maid. And since she doesn’t have the heart to boss a ...
Khutso grows up poor in Masakeng and eventually goes to university where he meets Pretty. The two fall in love and get married. But there is no happily ever after here. Pretty has an affair. She contracts HIV and commits suicide, leaving her husband infected with the disease. Devastated, Khutso cuts all ties with his old life and sets out on a quest for vengeance that quickly fills his little black book of revenge with names. The second novel by ...
Room 207 is set in and around a dilapitated building in Hillbrow. For more than ten years, six guys live in room 207 of this block of flats: they are Matome, Molamo, Zulu-boy, D’nice, Modishi and the nameless narrator. By day, they are hustlers – they hustle production companies, they have their own music company, they survive. At night, they party, and they’re pushing corruption, as the narrator would say. They are conmen, and they are streetwi ...
Siegfried Landman is iets in die dertigs. Sy lewe lank het hy saam met sy pa op ‘n afgelee plaas iewers in die Karoo gewoon. Maar dan, op ‘n dag, sterf sy pa, en moet Siegfried maak soos sy pa hom al die jare laat oefen het: gaan haal Wilhelm Smit (jare lank al ‘n bywoner op hulle plaas) en gaan Kaap toe, na oom Bert Fischer, sy enigste oorlewende familielid naas sy ma, wat ‘n meermin is in die see. Dit word ‘n magiese reis, wat begin met ‘n bes ...
Dulcie-Anne Douglas is ’n miljoener – op skrif. Twee jaar gelede toe haar man oorlede is in ’n treinongeluk, het sy in ’n japtrap vir haar en die kinders ’n smart huis in die woonbuurt van Roxy gekoop. Weg van Gumaville se arm bure en vuil brakke. Maar Gumaville se inwoners wil haar eenvoudig nie los nie. ‘n Tong-in-die-kies roman deur die skrywer van KROES en DIE VAL VAN DIE DICE. Stamatelos skeer die gek met wit, met bruin, met swart. ’n Eg sa ...
